The DYNA 3D translator

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The FEMGEN to DYNA3D interface program has been modified to support the keyword format. The keyword format is chosen by environment variable FG_PRE_VER set to 'keyword'; the default remains the LLNL format.

There is no added functionality except for user-defined node set being available with the keyword format only. Node sets are created if FEMGEN sets starting by 'NSET' exist.

Three new routines have been created to do the following:

- check if any contact involves beam elements,

- write out node sets,

- write physical properties for keyword format only

Three (redundant) load types were removed from the DYNAIQ for the DYNA3D environment. These load types (TR-CURVE, DY-CURVE, DT-CURVE) were used to define load curves, which can be defined with the CONSTRUCT TCURVE command. Existing archive files with these load types will need to be edited before they can be read into FEMGV.

The title written to the input file now allows a 60 character description (instead of 20 chars).

The FEMGEN to DYNA3D version number is now 3.010.

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